We have a Windows Server 2008 with Automatic Updates set to: Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.

This is the setting that we have for all of our servers, but for some strange reason this server set itself back to Install Updates automatically. We manually run updates on all of our servers and I know that this is the default setting for our servers.

I Googled this issue and it seems that people have seen this with XP and Vista, but I did not find anything on server operating systems.

Have any body in the community seen this? and if you have did you find out the reason to it?

We had this issue with both 2003 and 2008 Servers - seemed random and we never found the root cause. The way I fixed it was to create a group policy for just the Servers to hard code the windows update engine to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.".

Assuming you are in a 2003 / 2008 Domain, use these automatic update settings in the GPO for the Servers:

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We had this issue with both 2003 and 2008 Servers - seemed random and we never found the root cause. The way I fixed it was to create a group policy for just the Servers to hard code the windows update engine to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.".

Assuming you are in a 2003 / 2008 Domain, use these automatic update settings in the GPO for the Servers: